Abbotsford Interior Painting & Decorating

Stay tuned for the awesome images and some painting tips on how I applied Benjamin Moore paint to this modern style heritage home on Eagle Mountain, Abbotsford BC. Two thumbs up for this builder . The trim work and design of this home is first class!

Example 1

300 hours of interior painting made the previous 5 year old paint job look like it was only finished in primer! Who is painting like this I say? All the beautiful homes I looked at up there were surprisingly finished with flat paints on the crown moldings, windows and baseboards (trim). If you own a home on Eagle Mountain in Abbotsford and feel your paint looks a bit drab, it's most likely because of this.
If you are wanting some painting done I highly recommend the new Benjamin Moore Ulti-Matte for walls, high entrances where flashing is harder to deal with and coloured ceilings. On quality trim work, a harder finish with a sheen is choice. Read this and next time you hire a painter expect the best. Flat paint on doors, baseboards etc are a fast and cheap way to get the job passed but IMHO, it isn't the best way to paint a quality home. Flat paint "on doors and casings" are for the "get-in get-out quick" and/or for hiding sloppy finishing work or defects thus... adds more profit into the contractors pockets. Eventually these flat spec paints start looking like chalk and scuff up so fast that within no time you need to repaint again. Bad for the customer, good for the painter.
Logically, why go to all the trouble of building stunning homes like these and then paint them like commercial projects? Sorry guys...I pretty much give up on working with general contractors. Not all share the fast and cheap way to paint but quality paint costs more money and a quality paint job takes more time. New home buyer's usually don't take close notice to the actual paint job until a year later when it starts looking like chalk.

Example 2.

Painting and Buffing Windows

Professionally painting trim with a quality pearl or semi gloss paint takes any home to a new level and IMO adds value to the home. Properly finished trim not only looks so much deeper and richer but it also lasts much longer and cleans much easier.

Check out these window casings in Example 2.

I HVLP 3 coats of Benjamin Moore Acrylic Latex Collection and buffed the final coat to an ultra smooth finish. Latex gives them a super soft look, Using an HVLP to put the latex paint on avoids the notorious "too shiny" look you get from oil, and gave these casings an incredible softer dusted look that is IMO is a new way to pro finish latex trim.

The home owner can simply take a soft cloth the these beauties and dust them off.